Climate Change: Gina McCarthy, head of the EPA, can't answer basic questions about global temperatures, climate models or numbers of hurricanes. She didn't know being a global warming zealot requires knowledge of math.If the science of climate change was "settled," you'd think one of the generals in the war on global warming would have memorized the numbers that point to our planetary doom from a menace the administration says is a greater threat than terrorism.But McCarthy was asked some pretty simple questions Wednesday at a Senate hearing Wednesday on her request for $8.6 billion to help fight the claimed imminent doom of climate change, and her performance didn't help her case.One of the questions involved droughts and the claim that their frequency has increased due to warming that is said to be caused by mankind's increased production of greenhouse gas, such as carbon dioxide, the basis for all life on Earth but judged by the EPA to be a...

A Republican member of the House Ways & Means Committee warned President Barack Obama this
week that his professed interest in raising taxes is moot, since the Constitution clearly states that only Congress has the power to levy taxes.

“Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution is clear on this matter — only Congress has the power to tax,” Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) wrote in a Thursday letter to Obama. “The statement by your press secretary this week that you are ‘very interested’ in reshaping the tax code through unilateral action would be a clear violation of the Constitution and continue a disturbing lack of bipartisanship.”

The White House says President Barack Obama is ‘very interested’ in raising taxes through executive action, a move one House lawmaker said is prohibited.

On Monday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama, a former constitutional scholar, is “very interested” in taking executive action to raise taxes. That comment was based on a letter from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that suggested Obama could raise $100 billion by closing “tax loopholes” that now benefit those companies.

Buchanan said he and other members of Congress are willing to work with Obama to achieve the bipartisan goal of lowering overall tax rates. But he said the White House needs to work with Congress on this, and can’t work alone.

“I remind you that the last successful tax reform effort, nearly 30 years ago, required President Reagan and a Democratic Congress to find common ground,” he wrote. “But unilateral action could poison the well of goodwill that is necessary to tackle this urgent challenge in a bipartisan manner.”

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) has reintroduced legislation to do away with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).Sensenbrenner, a senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said the policies under ATF's jurisdiction could be easily incorporated into other agencies. Moreover, he argued, the ATF has become embroiled in too many controversies in recent years, like the botched "Fast and Furious" gun-tracking operation."The ATF is a scandal-ridden, largely duplicative agency that lacks a clear mission. Its 'Framework' is an affront to the Second Amendment and yet another reason why Congress should pass the ATF Elimination Act," Sensenbrenner said in a statement.The ATF has drawn the ire of Republican lawmakers for its proposed ban on an armor-piercing bullet used in AR-15 rifles. Republicans say that hunters frequently use the bullets. The bureau says it initiated the regulation to help protect law enforcement officers from bullets that can pierce armored vests.

Sensenbrenner's bill would transfer the ATF's functions related to guns, explosives and violent crime to the FBI. Meanwhile, responsibilities regarding alcohol and tobacco laws would fall under the Drug Enforcement Administration's jurisdiction.The ATF director would have 180 days, or about six months, to submit a plan to Congress on how to...

If Iran is allowed to build the bomb why can't you?The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab is a toy lab set that was produced by Alfred Carlton Gilbert, who was an American athlete, magician, toy-maker, business man and inventor of the well-known Erector Set. The U-238 Atomic Energy Lab was released by the A.C. Gilbert Company in 1950. This lab's intention was to allow children to create and watch chemical reactions using radioactive material.The lab contained a cloud chamber that allowed the viewer to watch alpha particles travel at 12,000 miles per second, a spinthariscope that showed the results of radioactive disintegration on a fluorescent screen and an electroscope that measured the radioactivity of different substances that were in the set. This toy is looked upon as being dangerous because of the radioactive material in the set, but Gilbert claims that none of the materials could conceivably prove dangerous.[1]Unlike Gilbert's other chemistry sets that his company released, the U-238 Energy Lab never gained popularity and the toy was taken off shelves only a year later, selling only from 1950 and 1951. Even over 35 years after its release, children still preferred the Erector Set.[2]

It was supposed to be a phone call for Obama administration ears only. But hear it the radio host did, she says. And what she heard should make your blood run cold — and perhaps your rage hot. Obama’s amnesty plan is to use illegal aliens as “seedlings,” said the federal officials. They will “navigate, not assimilate,” as they “take over the host,” create a “country within a country” and start “pushing the citizens into the shadows.”Welcome to the “fundamental transformation” of America.The above was alleged by WCBM radio co-host Sue Payne in an interview with talk giant Mark Levin Thursday last week. Payne says that while at an immigration rally, she became privy to three conference calls in which 16 Obama administration officials — including Cecilia Muñoz, director of Obama’s White House Domestic Policy Council — discussed plans for what could only be called the final destruction of traditional America and the cementing of leftist hegemony. Muñoz, by the way, is perfectly suited to this task; she was once a senior vice president for the anti-American Hispanic lobbying organization the National Council of La Raza.

Oh, la raza means “the race” (I guess the whole “‘Hispanic’ is an ethnicity” thing doesn’t cut much ice with them).Payne opened the interview by explaining that what Obama actually did on November 21 — the day he signed his supposed executive amnesty — was create the “Task Force on New Americans” (TFNA) for the purposes of implementing his legalization scheme. And it won’t be applied to just 5 million illegals, but “13 to 15 million to give protection [to] and move…on to citizenship,” reports Payne.Payne then said that the illegals, labeled “seedlings,” would eventually “take over the host.” She continued, “And the immigrants will come out of the shadows, and what I got from the meetings was that they would be pushing the citizens into the shadows. They would be taking over the country; in fact, one of the members of the task force actually said that we would be developing a country within a country.”To this nefarious end, the goal of the TFNA is to create a “welcoming feeling” in illegal-seeded localities, which would be redesignated “receiving communities.” They’d subsequently be transformed (fundamentally, I suppose) into what are labeled “emerging immigrant communities” — or as some would say, México Norte.The officials also said, reports Payne, that for the seedlings to “grow” they needed “fertile soil” (a.k.a. your tax money). The officials stated that the legalized aliens needed to be...

The rule of law is in grave danger, as federal regulators use ever thinner legal pretexts to enable vast public policy changes without votes by our elected representatives. In a span of just seven days, the FCC declared the Internet a public utility, Congress acceded to DHS implementing executive amnesty, the president used a veto threat to protect the NLRB’s ambush elections rule, and the Supreme Court’s four liberals showed they are not just willing but enthusiastic to allow the IRS to ignore the plain language of Obamacare. A great week for regulators, but a terrible week for everyone else.The FCC order regulating the Internet was written by political operatives in the White House, is over 300 pages long and – even though it was approved on a party-line 3-to-2 vote on February 26 – has still not been released to the public. The man who reportedly convinced President Obama to demand the FCC, which is supposed to be an independent agency, to adopt his plan was Tumblr CEO David Karp, who when asked the most rudimentary question about the economics of the order replied: “Ummm, uhhhh, I confess. Not my area of expertise.” Now, the same radical pressure groups that have long pushed for such regulations, funded by $196 million from George Soros and the Ford Foundation, are launching a major effort to scare Congress – the legitimate legislative branch of the federal government – into sitting on their hands and not acting on the issue.The union agenda was emphatically rejected when the card check bill, a union wish list that included ending private ballot protections for organizing elections crashed and burned in...

A massive stone rising over 650 feet out of the flat ground of Guatape, Colombia, the Piedra de Penol or El Peñon de Guatape, was once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians.

By the 1900s, the massive 10-million-ton rock was seen by local farmers as a nuisance, a giant version of the rocks that the farmers regularly dug out of their fields. In 1954 a group of friends — supposedly at the urging of a local priest — climbed the rock using a series of boards wedged into a crack. These were the first people known to have climbed El Peñon de Guatape. (It is unknown whether the Tahamies had a way of ascending the stone.)

Climbing the huge stone took five days, but the top of the rock revealed...

Retired Admiral James “Ace” Lyon formerly commanded the U.S. Pacific Fleet and also served as Senior U.S. Military Representative to the United Nations and Deputy Chief of Naval Operations. He’s a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Naval War College. He is an expert’s expert when it comes to military matters. Equally important is his patriotic viewpoint and his willingness to voice his concerns as he sees them, without concern for political correctness or modifying the content of his remarks to suit the sensitivities of America’s enemies and oppressors, whether they be foreign or domestic.A couple of weeks ago Admiral Lyons attended the true Defeat Jihad Summit, an event hosted by Frank Gaffney, which was taking place at approximately the same time as the false, Muslim love-fest pageant that the Obama regime was putting on. The Obama affair was a PR stunt designed to deflect outrage over international terrorism and to shore up Islam’s tarnished image. The Defeat Jihad Summit was intended to do exactly that, provide insight into how to meet the...

Charlotte, NC – On Tuesday, police discovered three dead bodies at a home in the 700 block of Norris Drive and found three dead bodies. All had been shot to death.One the victims was 19-year-old Mirjana Puhar, a finalist on the popular show, “America’s Next Top Model.”The bodies of 23-year-old Jonathan Cosme Alvarado, and 22-year-old Jusmar Isaiah Gonzaga-Garcia were also found in the residence.While the investigation is ongoing, police believe the shootings were drug-related.As it turns out, Illegal Alien Rangel was also wanted for the recent murder of 22-year-old Rosool Jaleel Harrell, who was shot to death inside a car in Matthews, NC.Puhar came to this country from Serbia with her family when she was only five years old. In her teen years, she worked at a McDonald’s while struggling to make it as a model.Ironically, Puhar recently posted a message on Instagram, stating: “I have a dream that one day we will one day spread more love than we do hate,” reported WBTV.Illegal Alien Rangel has been charged with..

Dr. Willie Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics released the following statement through The Heartland Institute in response to repeated attacks on his character and scientific integrity.All media inquires should be directed to Heartland Institute Director of Communications Jim Lakely at jlakely@heartland.org, 312/377-4000 or (cell) 312/731-9364. For more information about Dr. Willie Soon see this page: Heartland.org/willie-soon. To see a previous statement about Willie Soon by Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast, click here.“In recent weeks I have been the target of attacks in the press by various radical environmental and politically motivated groups. This effort should be seen for what it is: a shameless attempt to silence my scientific research and writings, and to make an example out of me as a warning to any other researcher who may dare question in the slightest their fervently held orthodoxy of anthropogenic global warming.

“I am saddened and appalled by this effort, not only because of the personal hurt it causes me and my family and friends, but also because of the damage it does to the integrity of the scientific process. I am willing to debate the substance of my research and competing views of climate change with anyone...

The only reason Hussein Obama needed to make the announcement of his federal takeover of local law enforcement, the gradual diversion away from a mission of serving the people to one of serving him, was to hear himself talk and to, as he loves to do, lecture the peasants. Anyone who has been paying attention already knows he is creating his own private domestic army of Obama loyalists, under his faithful servants in the “Justice Department.”On Monday he described the takeover in familiar, ominous terms, saying, “We have a great opportunity, coming out of some great conflict and tragedy, to really transform how we think about community law enforcement relations.” The determination of just how great this opportunity is depends solely upon one’s perspective. For the American people, the loss of local accountability and control of their community and state policing is the real great tragedy.Open is presenting the culmination of his program of racial agitation-based drive for “racial justice” against the fabricated bigotry of white cops, all white people and all police in general. He will now create a favored class of citizen, the minority criminal; included will be those he is now importing to replace the American citizens in his new communist “utopia.” In the Orwellian world that is the Hussein Obama dictatorship, criminals are victims. Crime-fighters and law-abiding citizens are criminals.The creation of a system of financial rewards for compliance with federal dictates and punishing non-compliance, either through the withholding of grant money or with actual sanctions and litigation by the federal bureaucracy is taking place at this very moment. That is the true nature of the beast that Hussein Obama is creating. His new personal Obama force will be the means of controlling dissent as his rule deprives the American people of our freedoms and our God-given rights are stripped from us.He advanced the carrot portion of the equation by seeking to “expand the COPS program that in the past has been very effective, continues to be effective, but is largely underfunded — to see if we can get more incentives for local communities to apply some of the best practices and lessons that are embodied in this report. That type of thing used to be considered bribery. Now it’s part of “best practices.” Best is whatever Obama says it is.In announcing preferential status for non-white offenders, Obama said, “I think communities across the board are going to need to...